Review of Skyward by a Teacher who uses it daily!
November 13, 2018
Review of Skyward by a Teacher who uses it daily!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Skyward Student Management System
We have approximately 1,200 students in our student body at our school. We use it as a database for all of the kids in the county. It provides a standard way for all teachers and administrators to access student schedules, grades, discipline records, referrals, and contact information in a central location. We are able to see where students are at and records can be connected for siblings. It is an extremely effective and useful tool at the teacher level, school level, and district level. We have been very pleased with its implementation in our school district and constantly get positive feedback about its effectiveness. However, in addition to just using it at the school level - its interface allows students and families to access the network as well for their own child. Parents can go in and check grades, see direct messages from teachers, check for missing assignments, etc. It's been very useful for all of us.
- It allows a family-friendly interface that connects the teachers, school and parents to share information about assignments and grades with current and real-time updated information.
- It allows schools to be able to connect siblings in families by showing where other children within the same family are located.
- It allows a messaging option so that teachers can communicate with parents and guardians and students of multiple classes all at the same time.
- It allows multi-class grading that helps teachers be able to implement assignments that apply to more than one class but not all.
- I would love to see teachers have a more user-friendly dashboard for each student where there were icons/buttons that could be pushed to take you to that student's IEP, grades, etc. It's all on a sidebar now, but some thing you have to do a few click-thru's to get to. Overall I have very few critiques of Skyward.
- I would like something that communicates more with parents of how to maximize their use of Skyward. For the not-so digitally inclined parents, it can be a bit intimidating to navigate this database system.
- I believe that we have had a great Return on our Investment as we have been using this software at a district-wide level for several years now and it keeps being an effective management software system for our students and families.
I, personally, have not used other Student Management Systems, but having used Skyward, I do not necessarily feel any overwhelming desire to seek out the competitive software programs. Skyward does what it says it will and provides my school district with an easy and organized way to share and access all of the relevant student and family information we need. It serves it's purpose well and meets our needs.